Zoos and Tiger reserves put on Covid-19 alert
4 years, 9 months ago

Zoos and Tiger reserves put on Covid-19 alert

Deccan Chronicle  

Hassan: After a Malayan tiger Nadia tested positive for the COVID-19 and six other big cats showing symptoms of illness at Bronx Zoo, New York, National Tiger Conservation Authority and Central Zoo Authority have issued advisory to the tiger reserves and Zoos. To make the matters worst, the biggest zoo is in Mysuru and most of the big tiger reserves are also around Mysuru, which has become hotspot of COVID-19 outbreak in Karnataka. One of the prominent tiger reserves of the country, Nagarahole which is having highest density of tigers in the country and its Director and Conservator of Forests Mahesh told Deccan Chronicle that there are 63 camps inside the Nagarahole and staffs have been provided with groceries for about a month so that they could not come into contact with outside people so as to attract any disease in them, if any. Ravi said ever since there was a case of a domestic cat affected by COVID-19 in Belgium, all precautionary measures were initiated in the Zoo such as non-entry of visitors, thermal screening of the staffs, food suppliers asked to wear face masks, sanitizers for staffs among others precautionary measures.

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India issues red alert for zoos as three tigers and a leopard die of H5N1 avian influenza at a rescue centre
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3 days ago

India issues red alert for zoos as three tigers and a leopard die of H5N1 avian influenza at a rescue centre

The Independent  

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Zoos on alert after three tigers, one leopard die of avian flu at rescue centre in Nagpur
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3 days, 11 hours ago

Zoos on alert after three tigers, one leopard die of avian flu at rescue centre in Nagpur

India TV News  

Avian flu: Three tigers and a leopard died at animal rescue centre in Nagpur due to avian influenza, prompting the authorities to put zoos on alert across the country, an official said on Monday. In response to the fatalities that took place at the end of last month, the Central government has issued an advisory instructing zoos to implement precautionary …

Maharashtra zoos on high alert after 3 tigers, and 1 leopard succumb to avian flu
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3 days, 16 hours ago

Maharashtra zoos on high alert after 3 tigers, and 1 leopard succumb to avian flu

Hindustan Times  

NAGPUR: The deaths of three tigers and a sub-adult leopard at the Gorewada Wildlife Rescue Centre in Nagpur due to the H5N1 avian influenza virus have prompted the Wildlife Research and Training Centre to issue a statewide advisory to zoos and wildlife rescue centres across Maharashtra. The deaths of three tigers and a sub-adult leopard at the Gorewada Wildlife Rescue …

Leopard, three tigers die of Avian flu in Maharashtra’s Gorewada Rescue Centre
4 days, 2 hours ago

Leopard, three tigers die of Avian flu in Maharashtra’s Gorewada Rescue Centre

The Hindu  

Three tigers and one leopard have died of H5N1 or Avian Influenza virus at Gorewada Rescue Centre in Maharashtra’s Nagpur. The veterinarians of the Wildlife Research and Training Centre at Gorewada has also issued a detailed bio-security measures to prevent access of birds to animals’ enclosures by using nets or covers along with routine sampling and testing of birds in …

Tiger terrorises village near Lucknow, locals warned against going out at night
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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Tiger terrorises village near Lucknow, locals warned against going out at night

India Today  

A tiger has been spotted in a village near Lucknow, creating panic among local residents, with authorities setting up cages to trap the big cat. The forest department has appealed to local residents against venturing alone at night as the big cat has been spotted in and around Rehman Khera village, located about 20 km from Lucknow, after sunset. After …

Tiger Re-enters Tadvai Forest in Mulugu
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Tiger Re-enters Tadvai Forest in Mulugu

Deccan Chronicle  

Warangal: The tiger, which had entered Bhadradri Kothagudem district and gone out, has re-entered the forest region of Tadvai mandal in Mulugu district. Forest officials, who spotted the pugmarks of the tiger, confirmed that the big cat was roaming in the Tadvai forest regions on Tuesday.’ Forest range officer Sattaiah said that they spotted the tiger’s pugmarks at Gouraram wagu …

71 tigers died due to unnatural causes since 2021: Environment Ministry
1 month, 2 weeks ago

71 tigers died due to unnatural causes since 2021: Environment Ministry

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Seventy-one tigers died due to unnatural causes, including poaching and seizures, since 2021, the Environment Ministry said on Monday. Responding to a query in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Kirti Vardhan Singh, said Madhya Pradesh reported the highest number of deaths at 20, followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka since 2021. In …

How many tigers died due to unnatural causes, including poaching in last four years? Govt replies
1 month, 2 weeks ago

How many tigers died due to unnatural causes, including poaching in last four years? Govt replies

India TV News  

Kirti Vardhan Singh, Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, while responding to a query in the Lok Sabha, said seventy-one tigers died due to unnatural causes, including poaching and seizures, since 2021. Madhya Pradesh reports highest number of deaths of tigers Madhya Pradesh reported the highest number of deaths at 20, followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka since …

MP: Canine Distemper Virus Infection Looms in Panna Tiger Reserve
1 month, 3 weeks ago

MP: Canine Distemper Virus Infection Looms in Panna Tiger Reserve

Deccan Chronicle  

Bhopal: Mass vaccination of stray dogs in and around Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh has begun amid the threat of the spread of canine distemper virus infection in the wild animals of the PTR, a senior forest officer said on Saturday. The initiative was launched on Friday owing to detection of prevalence of canine distemper virus in some stray …

Tiger found dead in suspected poaching, third since 2022 in Chhattisgarh
2 months ago

Tiger found dead in suspected poaching, third since 2022 in Chhattisgarh

New Indian Express  

RAIPUR: The death of a male tiger under mysterious circumstances at Baikunthpur forest adjoining the Guru Ghasidas National Park, about 350 km north of Raipur, has bewildered the Chhattisgarh State Forest Department. This is the third tiger death in the state since 2022 and the second suspected poaching reported this year after a tiger was killed in January in the …

Suspected bird flu kills 47 tigers, three lions and a panther in Vietnam zoos
3 months ago

Suspected bird flu kills 47 tigers, three lions and a panther in Vietnam zoos

The Independent  

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Assam government urges Orang National Park authorities to trace, transfer killer tiger to zoo
4 months, 1 week ago

Assam government urges Orang National Park authorities to trace, transfer killer tiger to zoo

The Hindu  

GUWAHATI The Assam government has instructed the authorities of a national park to catch the tiger that killed an armed home guard on August 28 and transfer it to the zoo. “We have issued an order to trace and transfer the tiger to a zoo, if necessary,” Assam’s Forest and Environment Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary said after Asom Gana Parishad …

Tamil Nadu: Two-year re-wilding bid fails, tiger taken to Vandalur zoo
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Tamil Nadu: Two-year re-wilding bid fails, tiger taken to Vandalur zoo

New Indian Express  

COIMBATORE: Two weeks after the principal chief conservator of forests and chief wildlife warden Srinivas R Reddy informed the Madras High Court that a tiger could not be released into the wild, a team of forest department staff, with the help of veterinarians, shifted the big cat to the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Chennai in a special ambulance from …

Tiger injured by snare in TN's Anamalai Tiger Reserve to be tranquilised for treatment
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Tiger injured by snare in TN's Anamalai Tiger Reserve to be tranquilised for treatment

New Indian Express  

COIMBATORE: Chief Wildlife Warden Srinivas R Reddy has issued an order to tranquilise and treat a tiger that was injured by a snare in the Tiruppur division of Anamalai Tiger Reserve. Officials believe the animal is in the Amaravathy forest range, which is spread over 25 sq km, and occupies a big territory like other big cats. Forest department sources …

Vizag Zoo welcomes new inmates from Alipore
8 months, 1 week ago

Vizag Zoo welcomes new inmates from Alipore

Deccan Chronicle  

Visakhapatnam:Under an exchange programme, Indira Gandhi Zoological Park in Visakhapatnam has received from Kolkata’s Alipore Zoo a male and female pair of northern giraffes, four water monitor lizards, and two scarlet macaws. In return, IGZP has given Alipore Zoo a white tiger, two Indian grey wolves, five Indian wild dogs, a ring-tailed lemur, two black swans, four hog deer, and …

Cannot permit zoo in a national park: SC on proposed tiger safari at Corbett
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Cannot permit zoo in a national park: SC on proposed tiger safari at Corbett

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday told the National Tiger Conservation Authority that its plan to have a tiger safari on the lines of a zoo within a national park, as envisaged at the Jim Corbett national park, cannot be permitted as the approach has to be “animal-centric” and not “tourism-centric”. Cannot permit zoo in a national park: SC …

Tiger spotted at 7k-ft height in Uttarakhand’s Almora
1 year ago

Tiger spotted at 7k-ft height in Uttarakhand’s Almora

Hindustan Times  

After Jageshwar, a tiger has been spotted at 7000-ft height in Binsar wildlife sanctuary of Uttarakhand’s Almora district, officials familiar with the matter said. It was a full-sized big cat and might have reached from Corbett Tiger Reserve or Ramnagar forest division,” said Dhrub Singh Martolia, DFO, Civil Soyam Forest Division in Almora. The tiger might have been on its …

Tiger numbers, and fears of surge in man-animal conflict, up outside Corbett
1 year, 4 months ago

Tiger numbers, and fears of surge in man-animal conflict, up outside Corbett

Hindustan Times  

The Uttarakhand forest department is preparing a comprehensive plan to protect tigers and check human-animal conflict after 229 tigers were found outside the Corbett Tiger Reserve in Kumaon, endangering the lives of both the animal as well as of villagers living outside the reserve area. According to the tiger census report released on July 29, there are 260 tigers inside …

Global Tiger Day: Importance of big-cat conservation stressed at Lko zoo
1 year, 5 months ago

Global Tiger Day: Importance of big-cat conservation stressed at Lko zoo

Hindustan Times  

The Nawab Wajid Ali Shah Zoological Garden observed Global Tiger Day in the presence of zoo officials and state ministers, on Tuesday. The student prize winners and officials who were felicitated at the Lucknow zoo celebration of Global Tiger Day, with zoo director Aditi Sharma, and forest minister Arun Kumar Saxena Arun Kumar Saxena, state minister for the department of …

National Tiger Body Claims Decrease in Telangana's Numbers, Officials Dispute Claim
1 year, 5 months ago

National Tiger Body Claims Decrease in Telangana's Numbers, Officials Dispute Claim

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The number of big cats in Telangana’s protected areas of Kawal and Amrabad tiger reserves decreased from a total of 26 in 2018 to 21 in 2022, according to the National Tiger Conservation Authority. Telangana has a transient tiger population that is not reflected in the numbers released and these are tigers outside of the two reserves,” a senior …

Rajasthan: Tigress spotted with three cubs in Ramgarh Visdhari Reserve
1 year, 5 months ago

Rajasthan: Tigress spotted with three cubs in Ramgarh Visdhari Reserve

Hindustan Times  

Tigress RVT-2 was spotted with her three cubs in the camera trap in Rajasthan’s Ramgarh Visdhari Tiger Reserve, officials said. Ramgarh Vishadhari Sanctuary in Rajasthan’s Bundi was approved as the fourth tiger reserve in the state by the ministry of environment, forest and climate change in July 2022. On World Tiger Day 29 July 2019, the pleasant result of the …

Tigress spotted with cubs in Rajasthan’s Ranthambore Tiger Reserve: Official
1 year, 6 months ago

Tigress spotted with cubs in Rajasthan’s Ranthambore Tiger Reserve: Official

Hindustan Times  

Tigress T-124 was spotted with her cubs on Wednesday morning in a camera trap in the Rajbag forest area under zone 3 of Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan, said a senior forest official. Another Ranthambore tigress, T-117 delivered three cubs on April 15 in the Sarmathura forest area in the Dholpur district, which adjoins RTR, said the official, adding that …

Veterinarians to assess rescued tiger’s recovery from surgery for lost canine at Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu
1 year, 7 months ago

Veterinarians to assess rescued tiger’s recovery from surgery for lost canine at Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu

The Hindu  

Around eight months after a tiger being rehabilitated in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve underwent a surgery for one of its lost canines, the Forest Department has tasked a three-member veterinary team to assess its health and recovery. According to the Forest Department, the tiger’s right upper canine had a crack when it was rescued as an orphaned cub from a …

Tiger spotting leaves villages in curfew-like limbo
1 year, 8 months ago

Tiger spotting leaves villages in curfew-like limbo

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: The sighting of three tigers, suspected to be moving among the fringe villages of the Palnadu district over the past week, has rendered residents fearful of venturing out alone. Forest authorities said that the Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve is home to 73 tigers, each of which needs a territory of 25-50 sq. The onset of summer has also compounded the …

Tiger from Rajasthan’s Ranthambore reserve spotted in MP’s Kuno National Park
1 year, 8 months ago

Tiger from Rajasthan’s Ranthambore reserve spotted in MP’s Kuno National Park

Hindustan Times  

A tiger from Ranthambore tiger reserve in Rajasthan, who has been roaming around in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur forest for the past two months, has entered Kuno National Park, a forest official said on Monday. Around half a dozen tigers from Ranthambore have entered Kuno in the past eight years The male tiger named T-136 has been trying to make its …

International Tiger Day: India’s tiger population is rising: How will we accommodate the big cats?
1 year, 8 months ago

International Tiger Day: India’s tiger population is rising: How will we accommodate the big cats?

Firstpost  

India is home to 70 per cent of the world’s wild tiger population – approximately 3,682. According to the 5th cycle of the All India Tiger Estimation 2022 summary report, India has a minimum of 3,167 tigers and is now home to more than 70 per cent of the world’s wild tiger population. Further data analysis using the latest statistical …

Karnataka in race with M.P. to emerge as ‘Tiger State’
1 year, 9 months ago

Karnataka in race with M.P. to emerge as ‘Tiger State’

The Hindu  

Karnataka is in the race with Madhya Pradesh to emerge as the ‘Tiger State’ of the country even as all eyes are on the 2022 tiger enumeration results which will be released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mysuru on Sunday at an event to commemorate 50 years of Project Tiger. Hills Wildlife Sanctuary as tiger reserves so that nearly …

Andhra Pradesh: Locals find four tiger cubs in Nandyal district, inform forest officials- WATCH
1 year, 10 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: Locals find four tiger cubs in Nandyal district, inform forest officials- WATCH

India TV News  

Residents of Pedda Gummadapuram village in the Nandyal district, Andhra Pradesh on Monday found four tiger cubs and shifted them to a safe place. Arrangements for protection of wildlife In a crucial development in the direction of protecting wildlife habitats, a Supreme Court-constituted panel on February 7 asked the Union Environment Ministry to amend or withdraw the guidelines related to …

Carcass of tiger found in Gubbi of Tumakuru
1 year, 10 months ago

Carcass of tiger found in Gubbi of Tumakuru

Deccan Chronicle  

BENGALURU: Mystery shrouds the death of a tiger aged about 7 years after its carcass was discovered under a bridge at Chikka Edagehalli village road in Gubbi taluk of Tumakuru district on Tuesday leading to suspicion that the big cat might have been poisoned to death. However, forest officials are yet to ascertain its cause of death and an autopsy …

How many tigers can India’s forests sustain?
1 year, 11 months ago

How many tigers can India’s forests sustain?

Hindustan Times  

Two newsworthy events will occur this year. Second, India’s most successful wildlife conservation venture, Project Tiger, will turn 50 this April, a milestone to be celebrated with another record estimate of tiger numbers. Tigers also don’t understand human-drawn boundaries or maps — national parks, wildlife sanctuaries or tiger reserves. A decade ago, Valmiki Tiger Reserve had fallen off the tiger …

Royal Bengal tiger that swam across Brahmaputra rescued, sent to Guwahati zoo
2 years ago

Royal Bengal tiger that swam across Brahmaputra rescued, sent to Guwahati zoo

Hindustan Times  

GUWAHATI: A Royal Bengal Tiger that swam across the Brahmaputra and took shelter in a cave on a small island close to Guwahati was on Tuesday tranquilised after a six-hour operation and shifted to the state zoo, officials said. A full grown Royal Bengal tiger is placed in a cage after it was tranquilised by forest officials in Guwahati. The …

Missing tiger spotted in MP’s Morena: Experts flag concern after it attacks 2
2 years, 1 month ago

Missing tiger spotted in MP’s Morena: Experts flag concern after it attacks 2

Hindustan Times  

Two, including a youth and a journalist, came under attack by a tiger on Thursday, in the Runipur village in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district, forest officials of the Chambal Wildlife Sanctuary said. Anish Andheria, an expert on big cats, said if the tiger stays in Chambal valley, it will pose a great threat to cheetahs “The tiger was spotted in …

Big cats\' count on the rise in Amrabad
2 years, 3 months ago

Big cats\' count on the rise in Amrabad

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Amrabad tiger reserve, the second largest protected area for the country’s flagship predator species, is witnessing a tiger population boom of sorts, if the preliminary numbers of the big cats counted during the recently concluded tiger estimation exercise are anything to go by. This year, with 21 individual tigers identified through camera trap images in the reserve, and …

Elusive big cat heading to tiger habitat in Eastern Ghats
2 years, 5 months ago

Elusive big cat heading to tiger habitat in Eastern Ghats

Deccan Chronicle  

VISAKHAPATNAM: Based on pugmarks being tracked, with latest ones seen on shores of a reservoir on Visakhapatnam-Vizianagaram border, the elusive tiger seems to be heading towards a proper tiger habitat in Eastern Ghats across the Andhra border. Sharing the latest status of the elusive tiger’s movement with Deccan Chronicle, Visakhapatnam forest officer Anant Shankar said fresh pugmarks of a healthy …

4 new cubs spotted in 2 tiger reserves of Rajasthan
2 years, 10 months ago

4 new cubs spotted in 2 tiger reserves of Rajasthan

Hindustan Times  

JAIPUR: 4 new cubs were spotted in the Tiger Reserves of Rajasthan, two each in Ranthambore and Sariska, taking the total population of the big cats to 111 in the state. Two new cubs were spotted at the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan With the sighting of two new-born cubs, the number of big cats has increased to 27 in …

Scientists detect novel coronavirus in wild leopard cub in India
2 years, 11 months ago

Scientists detect novel coronavirus in wild leopard cub in India

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Veterinary scientists in India have …

Eight big cats test Covid-19 positive in US zoo: Report
3 years, 1 month ago

Eight big cats test Covid-19 positive in US zoo: Report

Hindustan Times  

Days after a pet dog in the UK tested positive for Covid-19, now eight big cats in a zoo in the United States detected positive for coronavirus. Citing St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Hill reported that the infected cats include two African lions, two snow leopards, an Amur tiger, a puma, and two jaguars. Apart from them, none of the other …

8 big cats at St. Louis Zoo test positive for COVID
3 years, 1 month ago

8 big cats at St. Louis Zoo test positive for COVID

Associated Press  

ST. LOUIS — Two African lions and six other big cats at the St. Louis Zoo have tested positive for COVID-19. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that zoo officials said Thursday that the animals are expected to make a full recovery. Most of the infected cats showed no signs of illness, zoo officials said, but a few had a decreased …

Four lions at Singapore zoo test positive for Covid-19
3 years, 1 month ago

Four lions at Singapore zoo test positive for Covid-19

India Today  

Four Asiatic lions at a Singapore zoo have tested positive for COVID-19 after coming in contact with infected staff, according to a news report. "All the lions remain bright, alert and are eating well," the Channel News Asia report quoted Dr Sonja Luz, vice president of conservation, research and veterinary at Mandai Wildlife Group, the zoo operator, as saying. "This …

Denver Zoo reports world’s first coronavirus cases in hyenas
3 years, 2 months ago

Denver Zoo reports world’s first coronavirus cases in hyenas

Associated Press  

DENVER — Two hyenas at the Denver Zoo have tested positive for the coronavirus, the first confirmed cases among the animals worldwide, a national veterinary lab announced Friday. Samples from a variety of animals at the zoo, including the spotted hyenas, were tested after several lions at the facility became ill, according to the National Veterinary Services Laboratories. Zoo officials …

Rajasthan may get another tiger reserve in the Kumbhalgarh area of Udaipur division
3 years, 2 months ago

Rajasthan may get another tiger reserve in the Kumbhalgarh area of Udaipur division

Hindustan Times  

The four-member committee constituted by the National Tiger Conservation Authority has found Kumbhalgarh Sanctuary in Rajasthan as a potential tiger reserve, officials said. Representative Picture After conducting a survey of the area in the last two months, the committee has found sanctuary potential as the fifth tiger reserve but also raised certain concerns. A senior official of the forest department …

Lions, tigers in US zoo test presumptive positive for Covid
3 years, 3 months ago

Lions, tigers in US zoo test presumptive positive for Covid

India TV News  

All of the lions and tigers living in the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C. have tested presumptive positive for COVID-19, it was announced in a statement. In the statement on Friday, the zoo, which is one the oldest in the US, fecal samples for all the big cats, including six African lions, a Sumatran tiger and two Amur tigers, …

All The Lions And Tigers At D.C.'s National Zoo Have Tested Positive For COVID-19
3 years, 3 months ago

All The Lions And Tigers At D.C.'s National Zoo Have Tested Positive For COVID-19

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The lions and tigers at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., have tested positive for COVID-19. Six African lions, a Sumatran tiger and two Amur tigers all received “presumptive positive” results for the coronavirus, the zoo announced in a Friday press release. Luke is one of several lions who tested positive for the coronavirus at the National …

Uttarakhand’s Rajaji Tiger Reserve opens for safaris with Covid-19 curbs in place
3 years, 4 months ago

Uttarakhand’s Rajaji Tiger Reserve opens for safaris with Covid-19 curbs in place

Hindustan Times  

Wildlife enthusiasts, tourists and adventure lovers can now enjoy a jungle safari in the Chila Range of the Rajaji Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand’s Garhwal region. The Rajaji Tiger Reserve is spread across the districts of Pauri Garhwal, Haridwar and Dehradun over a 842 sq km area. “It is a good move to open the track for tourists as apart from …

At Rajasthan's Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, Tigress T-105 Spotted With 3 Cubs
3 years, 4 months ago

At Rajasthan's Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, Tigress T-105 Spotted With 3 Cubs

News 18  

There’s some good news from the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan where trap cameras have captured images of a tigress known as T-105 with three cubs in the Sultanpur area under Sawaimadhopur district of the state. A senior official of the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve told the media that this is the first litter of the tigress. Chief Wildlife Warden of …

3 tiger cubs added to Ranthambore reserve, officials wary of rising numbers
3 years, 4 months ago

3 tiger cubs added to Ranthambore reserve, officials wary of rising numbers

Hindustan Times  

Three tiger cubs, spotted for the first time at Rajasthan’s Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, have taken the big cat population to 74 at the sanctuary located at Sawai Madhopur. Tigress T-105 was spotted with her three new born cubs at the Ranthambore tiger reserve in Rajasthan. The tigress T-105 was sighted with 3 cubs on Wednesday evening in Tapkan-Sultanpur area in …

Two tiger reserves in Tamil Nadu earn a global status in conservation
3 years, 4 months ago

Two tiger reserves in Tamil Nadu earn a global status in conservation

The Hindu  

Anamalai Tiger Reserve located at Pollachi near Coimbatore, one of the largest landscapes in the south of Palghat Gap with 4000 sq km of protected area, and the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the Nilgiris, a bio-diversity hotspot of the Western Ghats have now earned a global elite tag in tiger conservation. Only 14 reserves made the cut including Parambikulam in …

Two rare Sumatran tigers recovering after catching Covid-19 in Indonesia
3 years, 5 months ago

Two rare Sumatran tigers recovering after catching Covid-19 in Indonesia

India Today  

Two rare Sumatran tigers at the zoo in the Indonesian capital are recovering after being infected with COVID-19. Swabs were taken and results came back positive for COVID-19, Suzi Marsitawati from the Jakarta Parks and Forestry Agency said in a statement on Sunday. Read: On eve of World Environment Day, list of 1,500 plant species conserved in Uttarakhand released A …

2 rare Sumatran tigers recovering after catching COVID-19
3 years, 5 months ago

2 rare Sumatran tigers recovering after catching COVID-19

India TV News  

Two rare Sumatran tigers at the zoo in the Indonesian capital are recovering after being infected with COVID-19. Swabs were taken and results came back positive for COVID-19, Suzi Marsitawati from the Jakarta Parks and Forestry Agency said in a statement on Sunday. Sumatran tigers are the most critically endangered tiger subspecies and are under increasing pressure as their jungle …

These photographers are still in touch with the wild
3 years, 5 months ago

These photographers are still in touch with the wild

Live Mint  

Chennai-based Rathika Ramasamy has been capturing wildlife in her camera for almost two decades. “Since most of us are always travelling,” says Ramasamy, “we don’t get the chance to sit back and reflect on the work we have done. In Mumbai, Aishwarya Sridhar, 24—the first woman from India and the youngest adult to win the “Highly Commended” award at the …

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